Informational analysis of the Canadian National Hydrometric program monitoring network

An information theory-based analysis was used to evaluate the Canadian National Hydrometric Network. The information theory approach used a mutual information based metric known as information quality ratio (IQR) to evaluate the reproducible information available in the network. The analysis was based on available data from 1 January 2009 to 31 December 2018, and compared using average daily discharge and average daily stage data from all …